Matteo and Santa....another interesting experience

Well if your read my earlier post, you would know that Matteo is feeling better.  So this morning we went off to Westgate mall to pick up and print some photos.  I also sort of wanted to check the Santa in this small mall. Turns out Santa is run by volunteers who are fundraising for Children at Risk - Special needs families dealing with children with Autism. They charge $5.00 per photo, let you take any photos you want on your own camera, and also will transfer the images to your disk for an additional donation. The line was very small...only two families ahead of us so thought we'd try.  Matteo was a bit hesitate, though he loved the train display and kept saying "Chou Chou..."....and then eventually wandered over to Santa. These first two photos are the official photos. The later ones were done because they wanted to apologize because before she was able to transfer the images to disk, she accidentally deleted them?? But thank goodness were printed before they were deleted. I told her I could still scan them and not to worry, but they felt bad and wanted to take some more photos for us, which they did. Matteo by this point had had enough so he refused to sit on Santa's knee at first, so I got to take some photos with Santa and then we tried with Matteo and Santa alone...not so fun...Matteo only smiled, as you will see, when he got the bell back from Santa!! Great memories and another great story.

This is my favourite....

Here are the freebees with mommy and a reluctant Matteo...

....and here is the second attempt about an hour after the first two photos were snapped....and Matteo really trying to wiggle off Santa's lap as well as trying hard to get that bell!

...and here he is with the bell...happy Teo!!